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Created out of the merger between the legacy Bell Atlantic and the former GTE,
Verizon Communications is the second-largest regional bell operating company
(RBOC) with Network serving residential and small business customers evolving to
fiber-to-the-premises technology with FiOS high-speed fiber services and more than 140 million
customer connections (wireless, wireline, broadband and TV).

(Source: SEC Filing)Verizon Communications Inc. provides
communication services. The company operates through two segments, Domestic Wireless and Wireline.
The Domestic Wireless segment offers wireless voice and data services; and sells equipment in the
United States. The Wireline segment provides voice, Internet access, broadband video and data,
Internet protocol network, network access, long distance, and other services in the United States
and internationally. The company serves consumer, business, and government customers, as well as
carriers. As of December 31, 2010, its network covered a population of approximately 292 million
and provided service to a customer base of approximately 94.1 million. The company was formerly
known as Bell Atlantic Corporation and changed its name to Verizon Communications Inc. in June
2000. Verizon Communications Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in New York, New York.

Verizon

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The FCC plans to vote on net neutrality in late February, a move that will spur a series of legal challenges from telcos and industry groups on one of the key policy issues that will govern how Internet traffic is delivered to consumers.

Republican Congressional leaders are proposing a new plan that could prevent service providers from giving priority for some websites over others, reports The Washington Post, citing unnamed industry officials close to the plans.

Verizon Enterprise Solutions continues to play into the bring-your-own-cloud mentality by now carrying its Secure Cloud Interconnect (SCI) service over the HP Helion Managed Cloud Service and the Salesforce Customer Success Platform.

Verizon has launched its latest salvo in the net neutrality debate, saying that the FCC has enough authority to enforce paid prioritization, blocking and throttling today without having to reclassify service providers under Title II regulation.

Carriers sometimes tout the maximum speeds their networks can deliver to subscribers. T-Mobile US, for example, claims that customers are seeing real-world peak downlink speeds of up to 145 Mbps in markets where it has deployed at least 15x15 MHz of spectrum for LTE. But how do the carriers really stack up when it comes to maximum speeds?

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